Dear all, I'm coming to Tampere in a month. could you please tell me about interesting places to eat drink and have fun.
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Hi Nima,
could you please specify more on your interests and the exact dates?
There will be Tampere Jazz happening on Oct 31 - Nov 3, for example. There will be also Finnish top league ice hockey games until Nov 2 and again starting Nov 13.
Restaurant recommendations depend on dietary requirements and your budget. I guess you have already visited Visit Tampere pages at https://visittampere.fi/en/ which contain a lot of information for visitors. If you are in Facebook, you could look at https://www.facebook.com/groups/CSTampere/ for internationally oriented events in Tampere.
Best regards Markku Konttinen
Dear Markku, I am visiting Tampere for world music expo and it starts on 22 Oct. I am so sorry about missing Jazz Happening, it seems really interesting. I will be busy till evening so and I am staying in the Omena hotel, so I am looking for a place near my hotel to relax and refill my energy for the very next day. Thanks for your information.
I would definitely recommend a pub called Vastavirta. On weekdays the upper floor Yläkerta is open from 16 to 02, it's got good music, very cozy living-roomy atmosphere, a free pool and table football, and many evenings also live music for free from about nine or ten onwards. You can see the programme at their website, http://vastavirta.net/ (ilmainen means free). On weekends there is lots of good live music downstairs at the actual Vastavirta club and a very lively scene going on. The bar was established about 15 years ago by punk / counterculture people, and the staff and the customers are mostly composed of punks, anarchists, general bohemians, various kinds of artists, and just simply very interesting personalities. I love the place, highly recommended!
Pretty near Vastavirta there is the restaurant called Pispalan Pulteri, which sells excellent burgers and also other different, actually quite Finnish dishes such as potato smash with fish and so on. And meanwhile if you're in Pispala I recommend taking a walk up the ridge and to the other side of it (called Tahmela), because the buildings and the views and all are very very beautiful.
In the city there is an excellent Irish pub called O'Connels with lots of different quality beers and other beverages for sale. They also sell pub food. If you're more into night clubs, I'd recommend Klubi near the railway station, or Doris near the main bridge, Hämeensilta. In my humble opinion pretty much all of the other night clubs are quite unvisitable, but those two I very much like. Free table football in both of them too. In case you're not into table football, well, I recommend you should be! All these bars here mentioned with the exception of O'Connels are brilliant places to start. There's also a restaurant called Gopal (there's actually a few of them) that sells very very very tasty and reasonably priced vegan food (a tip: if you go half an hour before they close, you get a good discount).
And also: go to sauna!!!!! Rajaportti in Pispala for example is highly recommended, open on Mondays and Wednesdays from 18 to 22, and on Fridays 15-21 and Saturdays 14-22.
Dear Kristian, Hello. Thank you very much for all your detailed great explanation. I loved what you said about Vastavirta. I hope I can go there. I am staying in the Omena hotel so if you also recommend anyplace near that I would appreciate and love it. Thank you very much.
O'Connels, Doris and Klubi all are within the reach of a few blocks from Omena Hotel. Art House Cafe Niagara in Kehräsaari is also a very pleasant bar/cafe very nearby, and they have a film theater there that shows loads of interesting movies, from classics to newer movies, independent, Hollywood, Finnish and foreign. Check out if there's anything interesting going on while you're in the city if you feel like watching a movie (https://www.arthousecinemaniagara.fi/fi/ohjelmistossa).
I'd also highly recommend checking out Romu & Random at Satamakatu 3, near Kehräsaari. It's a kind of free space to play instruments, drink coffee, sit or lay in a sofa and do something or do nothing, paint, draw, read, speak with the other people similarly hanging around there or remaining silent, whatever you like. It's not a bar, not a cafe, just simply a place to be and you don't have to pay anything to anybody, but if you want to you can buy some local records, clothes, handwork and all kinds of interesting small stuff the local scene has produced that are on display there. Definitely worth checking out and being in!
There's also excellent live music for free usually about every week at Romu & Random, also poetry readings and about everything related to art you can imagine. Artists can be local or just generally from somewhere in Finland, or from anywhere abroad. Go and see!
Great, I think that was all I need. Thank you very much Kristian.
Quite central is Plevna - it is named after a battle and in that complex is a workers museum called Werstas - free to look around; a bar that is a Bierkeller style, there are a few eateries and cafés there too. Quite near you can walk and look over the lake Näsijärvi and see a monument to those that died in a ship disaster and the funpark of the city. Continuing down from that you go down a large boulevard and can walk past the library called Metso and to see the other lake. Then go left and you will pass by Ratina - a new shopping mall. Again a few places to hang out, but this takes you back into the city and then you might head for another bar called Telakka - its actually a theatre and you can either call in and have food and drink or see at least the smallest gallery in Tampere - literally a shoebox art gallery! Maybe something is happening there or in nearby nightlife places of Pakkahuone https://tullikamari.net/fi/tapahtumat (an old bonded warehouse that is now a night club) or Mixei a gay bar or you can find some nearby places - like Tampere Talo - a concert hall, or some traditional pubs (English style).
Dear Markus, Thank you very much for your detailed explanations. I am going to stay in the Omena hotel I assume it is in the center of the city. I loved your idea about feeling the history of the city. Thanks man.
Close to railway station there are nice restaurants that are also good places to have a night out. Eg. Telakka (http://www.telakka.eu/) they have a nice menu and sometimes gigs etc. If you are into rock and metal, Dog's home is a place to check. Really cosy place in Tammela (east from railway station, next to Tammelan tori) is Oma Bar (https://www.bar-oma.com/) where I am pretty sure that you can find locals to talk with and they also have quizzes, movie nights etc. And for the best burgers in town (imo :D), check Soho (https://www.gastropub.net/soho/) and if you are into football, that's also your place. Oh, and check also this area: https://olympiakortteli.fi/ there's also a "secret pub" ;)
Dear Kirsmeli, Hello. Thank you very much. I am going to stay in the Omena hotel and I just saw Oma Bar is pretty close to me, within walking distance! so I will check it out. Thanks.
Dear Markku, I am visiting Tampere for world music expo and it starts on 22 Oct. I am so sorry about missing Jazz Happening, it seems really interesting. I will be busy till evening so and I am staying in the Omena hotel, so I am looking for a place near my hotel to relax and refill my energy for the very next day. Thanks for your information.